“A selection of tracks initially conceived for a live event at The Incubator. The songs developed into a fully fledged EP in it’s own right as a consistency of sound and vision began to form during post event recording sessions and arrangement.”

The Ember Music MIXcast is a regular helping of tracks by artists of the Ember Music label. This mixcast was compiled and mixed by William Bendrot.

Welcome to the first MIXcast of 2015. This month we’ve got new tracks from The Never Were featuring fellow Ember artist Coreena, Clark Grogan, Kurt Lorenz and Fake Empire. As well as a track that was composed for Tuba artist Joanna Ross Hersey’s new album ZigZags and features MobiusB.

Enjoy! And if you like what you hear on this MIXcast, please tell others, and then go to EmberMusic.com to discover more! We’ll have a lot of great sounds coming your way through 2015.

The Ember Music MIXcast is a regular helping of tracks by artists of the Ember Music label. This mixcast was compiled and mixed by William Bendrot.

Welcome to our year-end 2014 installment of the MIXcast. We’ve got a perfect solstice/winter mix vibe for you this month with tracks new tracks from Kurt Lorenz, Fake Empire and a preview of an upcoming track from MobiusB. We’ve also got plenty more from Stalker VA, Known Rebel, Kikai, Vacant Mind, Savaran and Tangram, as well as a track from friend of Ember, Cruxes, from Austin Texas.

Enjoy! And if you like what you hear on this MIXcast, please tell others, and then go to EmberMusic.com to discover more! We thank you ALL for a fantastic 2014 and wish each and every one of you happy holidays and an amazing 2015!

Ember Music artist Scott Brown (Fake Empire, Slowly We Falter) has posted a review and demo of the Red Panda Lab Particle. He also talks about some of the uses/techniques he discovered using the Particle so far.

Particle is a granular delay / pitch shifting pedal. It chops your signal into small grains and then does various strange, trippy, robot things to it, using the techniques of granular synthesis in real time. Results range from radical pitch and delay modulation to shimmering repeats to stutter/glitch sounds.

The audio demos were created by running an Elektron Machinedrum into the particle. It works particularly well with drum tracks so I wanted to show some of it’s potential. The audio was recorded into Logic via a Saffire Pro 40 interface.

We are very happy to announce the release of the Ember Music Chain Album. The album is available now via Bandcamp!

This album started with an idea. Give an artist some random samples to use in an original track. Samples are then taken from the first track and given to the second artist to use. Samples from the second track are given to the third artist… on and on down the chain. The artists were not told whose samples they received nor to whom their samples would go. The artists were also sent an image as inspiration.

The results are quite astounding.

Credits:
Tracks composed, performed and mixed by the respective artists.
Mastered by Bill Bendrot.
Album art/design by Kurt Lorenz.
Chain album logo concept by Scott Brown.
Album concept by Daniel J. Davis.